PSA: Free Spotify clone!

[Bryn]

Magical Tune

I stumbled upon this website. It's a pretty good clone-in-progress of Spotify, with no geographical restrictions and an impressive catalogue.

Thoughts? I wonder if they licensed the music? :erm:

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Outraged Kanye tweets in 3..2..1

 

[Defib]

OMF legend thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[backstreetboy]

Doesn't have Taylor Swift so it's a legit clone

 

[Bryn]

OMF legend thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're welcome!

 

[Bryn]

I had some correspondence with the creator of the website. He said the tracks come from Youtube. Not sure how he manages it on a large scale, but he seems (falsely?) confident that he's protected by Youtube's fair-use laws because he isn't charging listeners.

 

[backstreetboy]

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/02/16/spotify-clones-built-with-a-38-script-might-soon-be-shut-down/

Ever wanted to roll your own streaming music service? As it turns out, all it takes is $38 — and you don’t even need to touch a line of code.

For roughly the price of a Chromecast, you can buy a script that sets up a full-fledged Spotify-like streaming music app that pulls tunes from YouTube and lets users create accounts, discover popular albums and whip up playlists. Only, you wouldn’t be the first to launch such a service — and it may not be legal.